Based on the well-known original memtest86
written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret
team, now working at www.canardpc.com. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of
this software tool aimed at memory failures detection. Memtest86+ was, is and will
always be a free, open-source software. The original Memtest86 is now handled by
PassMark® Software Pty Ltd.

Memtest86+ is released under the terms of the Gnu Public License (GPL). No restrictions for use, private or commercial exist other than the ones mentioned in
the Gnu Public License (GPL). Texts about the original version was taken from the
original website and written by Chris Brady.

PS : A newsletter for memtest86+ updates is available / Donation for Memtest86+ welcome. Please support free GPL software.

The first version of Memtest86+ was released on
early 2004, based on memtest86 v3.0 that was not updated since mid-2002. Our
main challenge was to provide an up-to-date version of this useful tool, as
reliable than the original. Our work started when we got the first AMD64 system.
Unfortunatly, the original memtest v3.0 didn't run at all. After looking at
the source code, we fixed the bug.After some days, I saw lot of other things
like chipsets or CPU that were not correctly detected or not detected at all.
As I'm the chief-editor of a french hardware website (www.x86-secret.com now integrated into www.canardpc.com),
I have access to lot of recent hardware and I can test and debug on quite all
available motherboards on the market. After adding detection for all current
CPUs, I've added detection for all current chipsets (SiS, VIA, nVidia, Intel)
and ECC Polling for AMD64, i875P and E7205. Then, I decided to display some
useful settings for the most popular chipsets. For exemple, on i865PE/i875P
series, memtest86+ will now display FSB & Memory frequency, PAT status,
memory timings, ECC status and the number of memory channels. Next version will
perhaps contain several enhancements and bug-fixes.

Here is some pre-compiled distributions of memtest86+.
Memtest86+ comes in three different way, first is a pre-build bootable ISO,
second is a bootable binary and third an installable package for creating a
bootable floppy. Third version are compressed in .zip and .tar.gz.

An official forum for all features Requests &
bugs fixes has been created on forum.canardpc.com. Even if the main forum
is in french, the memtest86+ forum is *ONLY* in english. No registration required
to post but *NO* help will be given to hardware issues. This forum is only dedicated
to features requests and bug fixes for memtest86+. All other post will be erased.

The Memtest86+ Newsletter is only intended to provide
an information about new Memtest86+ updates. Nothing more will be sent. Of course,
the emails addresses provided will NEVER be passed to others and will be kept
STRICTLY confidential. Subscribers will received an email with the changelog
when a new version of memtest will be released.

Memtest86+ is written by Samuel DEMEULEMEESTER,
chief editor of www.x86-secret.com (visit us). You can send an email to memtest[nospam]@memtest.org
(sorry for the syntax, remove [nospam]). But don't expect an answer...

PS : Again, the original author of memtest86 is
Chris Brady (www.memtest86.com)

We occasionally receive email that ask for a doantion, so, here is the donation
section ! So, if you've found memtest86+ useful - maybe it saved you some
money or helped you to understand an issue that's been bothering you for ages
- then please consider making a donation to support free software and help us
face costs that occur (webhosting, buying of some hardware for debugging, ...etc).
Don't forget donations are very welcome, but by no means required. However,
they will directly increases the amount of time we can spend on developing mt86+.

Your name or company name will be asked in the Paypal's form and it will be
added to this page as a mt86+ donator. Any amount is greatly appreciated